A few days before the latest Wandle pollution incident…
Jim Brown is the learned author of Fishing Reel Patents of the United States 1838 – 1940 (1985) and the American Museum of Fly Fishing’s…
The Wands Dinner 2012
The 9th Wandle Piscators annual dinner has been and gone, but certainly not forgotten. Memorable in that a very enjoyable evening was had by all,…
In Memoriam: Sidney Vines
The Wandle Piscators have been deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the Club’s very first Patron, Major Sidney Vines. Sidney is probably best…
Welcoming our new President: Peter Lapsley
Spend time scanning the shelves marked fishing in your local bookstore, or start interrogating your favourite search engine with (let’s say) river and fly-fishing, or…
5 methods, 4 species: The Wandle in the Angling Times
At the end of November last year, angling writer Dominic Garnett visited the Wandle for the first time, recording his experiences in the urban badlands with typical…
Wander up the Wandle: World Rivers Day
In the four years since a guided Wander up the Wandle became a fixture in the Wild Trout Trust’s annual charity auction, the river’s trout…
The Riverfly Conference 2011
At a time when words like Big Society, community empowerment and citizen science are on everyone’s lips, last week’s third Riverfly Conference ended up debating a…
Wander up the Wandle: Portrait of an urban angler
Just like last year and the year before, 2010’s third annual charitable Wander up the Wandle saw Andrew Farr take to the water outside the…
The Wands Dinner 2010
Over the course of the past year, the William Morris at Merton Abbey Mills has steadily become the Wandle Piscators’ home from home on the…
Fish on! Fighting Ferraris on the Edge of reason
Now that Christmas is over, and the New Year has arrived, many anglers head for the ski slopes (and sometimes the chance to bunk off…